Ethics exist independently of any deities even if they did exist.

If ethics didn’t exist separately, and God is actually the source of good, then we would have a lot of logical paradoxes to solve.

For instance, let’s assume God is who defines goodness and educates us on it, and goodness does not exist without God.

Thus, we recognize we don’t have inherent ability to define what’s good or bad. But that also means we can’t prove God is good, because we already recognized only God can define what’s good.

I might have butchered the logical fallacy a bit, logic is hard, but I remember it roughly being stated this way.

Or both! Don’t consume where possible, seek out the most ethical option when you must

Jurisdiction doesn’t matter, it’s an myth spread by Protonmail marketers so everyone thinks their privacy is ensured by some strict Swiss privacy laws.

Although privacy laws are pretty mild everywhere. Even GDPR is quite outdated and is barely enforced.

Proton, Tuta and others do it because “Swiss privacy” or “EU-based” brand is much more recognizable and easier to sell people on, compared to “we do metadata obfuscation” or “here is our 50 page long security audit”.

However, what actually matters more is security architecture. Signal is US based, but they thought through how to retain as little data on users as possible, so when FBI asked them for info, Signal could only give them date of account registration, user ID, and last login.

TLDR ignore country of registration and HQ location, evaluate on the merits

NYM seems promising, they are trying to build a decentralized VPN with multiple nodes, same as TOR but faster, so no one has full data who talks to who and what type of traffic.

However it’s only been around for a year, so we still don’t have enough data if their approach works or not compared to traditional VPNs.

iVPN is a good one, it has been around for 15 years now, and is also privacy and FOSS focused like Mullvad.

However they lack some security features that Mullvad has: DEITA, diskless servers etc.

Ultimately I would say go with:

• NYM if you want to gamble (high risk high reward),

• Mullvad for good security, but yeah your money goes to a far-right party in Sweden,

• iVPN: worse security than Mullvad, but more trustworthy than NYM, and your money doesn’t fund right-wing populism

Its my crack I can’t stop coming back to all while hating every second of it

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If you promise to dismantle Adobe you will have secured another vote xD

We can all agree it’s immoral, but it’s also just plain stupidity.

Even if you are white supremacist “kill all people of color”, you still need a professional military that’s not wasting time massacring civilians and creating PR disasters daily, if you hope to win any wars at all.

Also “their place in history is settled”: sorry to ruin your day but that’s not how collective processing of historical trauma works, nor history as a science.

I find this upsetting because of “this decision is final, this is settled”.

He is presenting himself as way more significant than he is, either because of complete lack of self-awareness, or preemptive defensiveness against inevitable criticism he can’t handle, or overcompensating for inability to cope they are on the losing side.

Neither has any semblance of EQ, emotional maturity or humility. These aren’t the kinds of people who would rule in a fair, meritocratic system.

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